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Beautiful pictures Noorie.
Lakshmi
QUOTE(lakshmi @ Sep 26 2007, 08:05 AM) 
Beautiful pictures Noorie.
Lakshmi
Forgive my geography, but is it Indus River?
Venkat
PS. Can one get a hint of your location from these nice photos!
QUOTE(venkat @ Sep 26 2007, 09:15 AM)
QUOTE(lakshmi @ Sep 26 2007, 08:05 AM)
Beautiful pictures Noorie.
Lakshmi
Forgive my geography, but is it Indus River?
Venkat
PS. Can one get a hint of your location from these nice photos!
Thanks 4 stopping by Lakshmi and Venkat, as well as 4 liking the pixs.
Here's what you wanted 2 know Venkat:
These pixs are of the Khanpur Dam / Lake which is a dam located on the Haro River near the town of Khanpur, about 25 miles from Islamabad, Pakistan.
It forms Khanpur Lake, a reservoir which supplies drinking water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi and irrigation water to many of the agricultural and industrial areas surrounding the cities. The dam was named after the former Khanpur village, which was submerged by the reservoir, so a new Khanpur town has been built downstream of the Dam.
The dam was completed in 1983 after a 15-year construction period believed to have cost Rs. 1,352 million. It is 167 feet high and stores 110,000 acre-feet of water.
It is an ideal place for a day trip / picnic, boating, angling and watching migratory birds during winter.
Noorie
QUOTE(noorie @ Sep 26 2007, 09:50 AM)
QUOTE(venkat @ Sep 26 2007, 09:15 AM)
QUOTE(lakshmi @ Sep 26 2007, 08:05 AM)
Beautiful pictures Noorie.
Lakshmi
Forgive my geography, but is it Indus River?
Venkat
PS. Can one get a hint of your location from these nice photos!
Thanks 4 stopping by Lakshmi and Venkat, as well as 4 liking the pixs.
Here's what you wanted 2 know Venkat:
These pixs are of the Khanpur Dam / Lake which is a dam located on the Haro River near the town of Khanpur, about 25 miles from Islamabad, Pakistan.
It forms Khanpur Lake, a reservoir which supplies drinking water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi and irrigation water to many of the agricultural and industrial areas surrounding the cities. The dam was named after the former Khanpur village, which was submerged by the reservoir, so a new Khanpur town has been built downstream of the Dam.
The dam was completed in 1983 after a 15-year construction period believed to have cost Rs. 1,352 million. It is 167 feet high and stores 110,000 acre-feet of water.
It is an ideal place for a day trip / picnic, boating, angling and watching migratory birds during winter.
Noorie
Noorie absolutely beautiful pictures...and i don't understand how i missed them yesterday?
Have you been there? Just imagine going trekking there.... Great!!
Lovely pics noorie, looks so peaceful
Wow!! What a place, so peaceful and so far away. I hope nobody ruins it.
RKA
RKA
Hi Noorie
Thanks for such beautiful pictures. Next time I visit South Asia, one of my stops (God willing) would be this area. I had studied about Taxila in high school history books in India but right now could not remember its location. Thanks for the information and beautiful pictures. Harjinder
Thanks for such beautiful pictures. Next time I visit South Asia, one of my stops (God willing) would be this area. I had studied about Taxila in high school history books in India but right now could not remember its location. Thanks for the information and beautiful pictures. Harjinder
Noorie hope you dont mind my adding some pics..
Mountain ranges Taxila
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Archeological findings in Taxila
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World heritage site,Taxila
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Mountain ranges Taxila
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Archeological findings in Taxila
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World heritage site,Taxila
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Pinkz, you're to consider this thread as your own. Many thanks 4 adding the new pixs.
Noorie
Noorie
QUOTE(noorie @ Oct 5 2007, 03:15 PM)
Pinkz, you're to consider this thread as your own. Many thanks 4 adding the new pixs.
Noorie
Thank you noorie..
Pinky,
Awesome pictures. Thanks a lot.
Lakshmi
QUOTE(lakshmi @ Oct 6 2007, 03:21 AM)
Pinky,
Awesome pictures. Thanks a lot.
Lakshmi
Most welcome Lakshmi
nice pics
nice pics
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